Author: N/A; Publisher: United Nations News; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) development is especially problematic for countries where governments do not have the ability to effectively regulate consumer privacy or misinformation. International AI regulation will probably be necessary to curb the problem. Social media companies are incentivized to supply…
Author: Tom Jongen; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how if any company uses customer data to make customer-facing decisions, there are ethical issues that need to be considered. Also, it asks us to consider “When ‘Know Your Customer’ goes too far;” and the issues related to Facebook/Cambridge Analytica political influence scandal from 2016 provide a clear…
Author: N/A; Publisher: Synced; Publication Year: 2020. The following news article talks about Genderify, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool designed to identify a person’s gender by analyzing their name, username or email address — has been completely shut down. Genderify was met with fervent criticism on Twitter, with many decrying what they saw as built-in biases. Entering the word “scientist”…
Author: Shannon Bond, Raquel Maria Dillon; Publisher: National Public Radio; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses a recent Senate hearing in which Peiter Zatko, former head of security at Twitter, testified before Congress, bringing up Twitter’s cybersecurity failures and lack of ethical leadership. Zatko accused Twitter of “practicing lax security, neglecting user privacy, [and being] plagued by widespread security issues.” The…
Author: Nello Cristianini; Publisher: European Research Council; Publication Year: 2021. The following article features Nello Cristianini, a professor of artificial intelligence from the University of Bristol, studied gender bias in media at a macro scale in order to see if they can remove bias from the media. They were able to remove bias and claim that their methods can be applied to other use cases. He also ran a sentiment analysis on Twitter to…
Author: Leanne Townsend, Claire Wallace; Publisher: Emerald Insight; Publication Year: 2017. The following book chapter talks about how over the past decade, the number of people engaging with social media has grown rapidly. This means that social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are potentially good sources of rich, naturally occurring data. As a result, a growing number of researchers are utilizing these platforms for…